Vassilakis, Vassilios, Moscholios, Ioannis, Bontozoglou, Andreas and Logothetis, Michael (2015) Mobility-aware QoS assurance in software-defined radio access networks: an analytical study. In: 1st IEEE Conference on Network Softwarization (NetSoft), 13-17 Apr 2015, London, UK.

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Abstract

Software-defined networking (SDN) has gained a tremendous attention in the recent years, both in academia and industry. This revolutionary networking paradigm is an attempt to bring the advances in computer science and software engineering into the information and communications technology (ICT) domain. The aim of these efforts is to pave the way for completely programmable networks and control-data plane separation. Recent studies on feasibility and applicability of SDN concepts in cellular networks show very promising results and this trend will most likely continue in near future. In this work, we study the benefits of SDN on the radio resource management (RRM) of future-generation cellular networks. Our considered cellular network architecture is in line with the recently proposed Long-Term Evolution (LTE) Release 12 concepts, such as user/control plane split, heterogeneous networks (HetNets) environment, and network densification through deployment of small cells. In particular, the aim of our RRM scheme is to enable the macro base station (BS) to efficiently allocate radio resources for small cell BSs in order to assure quality-of-service (QoS) of moving users/vehicles during handovers. We develop an approximate, but very time- and space-efficient algorithm for radio resource allocation within a HetNet. Experiments on commodity hardware show algorithm running times in the order of a few seconds, thus making it suitable even in cases of fast moving users/vehicles. We also confirm a good accuracy of our proposed algorithm by means of computer simulations.

Item Type:	Conference or Workshop Item (Paper)
ISBN:	9781479978991
Identifier:	10.1109/NETSOFT.2015.7116192
Page Range:	pp. 1-6
Identifier:	10.1109/NETSOFT.2015.7116192
Keywords:	Probability, Radio access networks, Quality of service, Resource management, Accuracy, Bit rate, Long Term Evolution
Subjects:	Computing
Depositing User:	Vasileios Vasilakis
Date Deposited:	05 Aug 2016 21:20
Last Modified:	04 Nov 2024 12:36
URI:	https://repository.uwl.ac.uk/id/eprint/2818

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